[Leaplist] Any suggestions on resolving "Stale NFS file handle" errors?

[Damien McKenna]

On Dec 9, 2008, at 1:45 AM, Bryan J Smith wrote:
> In this case, Damien mentioned a SAN and gave no other info.  Can't  
> help
> him much without it.


I'll see what I can do to find out more about the SAN setup.

The errors have really only started since we started pulling down  
hundreds of megs of static files from a 3rd party service for display  
on our sites.  There's 9840 directories at the top level, each  
directory then has a few sub directories and only one actual file  
(index.html) per directory.  In total there are 18000 directories and  
roughly the same number of files.  Every hour the server runs an rsync  
command to pull down updates to these files from an off-site server,  
which can be anywhere from hundreds to thousands of updated  
directories & files each time.

I have worked out that they're using Ubuntu on the cluster and are  
using nfs-common v1.1.2-2ubuntu2.1 along with kernel 2.6.24-19-server.

Thanks.

-- 
Damien McKenna - Husband, father, geek.
damien at mc-kenna.com - http://www.mc-kenna.com/


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